People think that it is an easy job being “The Man”, but they in fact have absolutely no idea what it is like. Being born an Irish-Scotch-Anglo-Franco-German-Kanuk(scotkeithly.blogspot.com), I stood absolutely no chance of escaping my inevitable future as “The Man”. The title alone is much more of a weight on my shoulders than you might think. I mean I can’t even begin to tell you how many times we have had to put up with ridiculous phrases such as “The Man is keeping me down” and “stick it to The Man”. Sure we did some bad things back in the day but it seems like we’re arguing over spilt milk here folks. Lets be honest with ourselves, if we (The Man) are really keeping anyone down would we really have implemented such ridiculous policies as affirmative action? Would we really let the movie companies market films like “White Chicks”? If The Man were TRUELY holding anyone down would we really allow “soul train” to stay on air after 38 years of whatever the hell they want to call it? The answer is simple: NO.
And come on people… why does everyone always want to stick it to us? As my brother, Scot, would say, “If we (the man) had as many coming out as going in, we’d look like a porcupine!” I realize that us “white (non Hispanic)” folk have a few bad apples: ie. John Wilkes Booth, Ryan Seacrest, Richard Simmons… But a lot of good has come from our type too: Chuck Norris supposedly counted to infinite twice and Lance Armstrong won seven Tour de France’s with only half his manhood… both amazing feats.
The plain and simple truth is people are making a larger deal over the whole oppression thing than we (the man) ever expected them to and I GUARANTEE if we had a time machine back in the early 1800's and could see the stuff we would eventually have to put up with today, I know for a fact we would have picked our own damn cotton…
-Pete
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